Ffeil 2637. - Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. War has been declared in the Balkans, and he is delighted. 'I wish ...,

Written at 11 Downing Street, Whitehall, S.W. War has been declared in the Balkans, and he is delighted. 'I wish for the moment I was a Bulgar or a Montenegrian. Shame on these greedy suspicious cowardly powers - had they an ounce of chivalry or Xtianity in their rotten carcases this war would have been unnecessary & the Turk would have long ago been swept out of Europe into the Bosphorus or Gahenna'.